Can I make a hiscores for my game?

[Can you save files from qbasic]

Is it possible to make a hiscores file using qbasic, that can be opened while the program is running, and where scores can be saved to?

[Ziggi]

Yes !
And is very easy.

Here is example.:

' this part writes to the file with append to build up players history
OPEN "c:\score.txt" FOR APPEND AS #100
WRITE #100, PLAYER$,SCORE$
CLOSE #100

' Reading from file 10 last records ( disply 10 last players)
counter = 0
OPEN "c:\scores.txt" for input as 100 ' first step to count records in file
DO WHILE NOT EOF(100) ' check if end of file
LINE INPUT#100, TEST$ ' reading a whole line from file
counter = counter + 1 ' incrising counter
LOOP
CLOSE 100

PRINT "Name","HI Score"

OPEN "C:\scores.txt" FOR INPUT AS #100
IF counter = 0 THEN PRINT " No HI scores !" :END
IF counter <= 10 THEN
FOR x=1 TO counter
INPUT#100, HIPLAYER$ ,HISCORE$
PRINT HIPLAYER$ ,HISCORE$
NEXT x
ELSEIF counter >10 THEN limit = counter - 10
FOR y=1 to limit ' omit some players to get last 10
LINE INPUT#100, TEST$
NEXT y
FOR x=1 to 10
INPUT#100, HIPLAYER$,HISCORE$
PRINT HIPLAYER$ ,HISCORE$
NEXT x
END IF
CLOSE 100

END
' End of program

The list scores.txt is not sorted, you have to make sort section by score.